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Magnetic rare-earth / non-magnetic metal superlattices are well-known to display chiral spin helices in the rare-earth layers that propagate coherently across the non-magnetic layers. However, the underlying mechanism that preserves the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 V. Ukleev , V. Tarnavich , E. Tartakovskaya , D. Lott , V. Kapaklis , A. Oleshkevych , P. Gargiani , M. Valvidares , J. S. White , S. V. Grigoriev

Motivated by a scenario of magnetogenesis in which a homogeneous magnetic field is generated during inflation, we study the magnetohydrodynamic evolution of the primordial plasma motions for two kinds of initial conditions -- (i) a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Axel Brandenburg , Ruth Durrer , Yiwen Huang , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Shinji Mukohyama

The non-invasive spatiotemporal control of cellular functions, organization of tissues, and even the behavior of small animals has become paramount for advanced therapies. As magnetic fields do not interact with biological matter, their…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Peter Blümler , Fabian Raudzus , Friederike Schmid

Chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes efficient spin filtering by chiral molecules. This phenomenon has led to nanoscale manipulation of quantum spins with promising applications to spintronics and quantum computing, since its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Xiaopeng Li , Jue Nan , Xiangcheng Pan

Molecular chirality and electron spin are intricately intertwined via the fascinating phenomenon of chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS), which has garnered considerable attention due to its extensive potential applications. A recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Ai-Min Guo , Yossi Paltiel , Qing-Feng Sun

We show that the stability (existence/absence) and interaction (repulsion/attraction) of chiral solitons in monoaxial chiral magnets can be varied by tilting the direction of magnetic field. We, thereby, elucidate that the condensation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-17 Yusuke Masaki , Ryuya Aoki , Yoshihiko Togawa , Yusuke Kato

We theoretically propose a method to enhance dramatically a magneto-chiral(MC) effect by using the photonic crystals composed of a multiferroic material. The MC effect, the directional birefringence even for unpolarized light, is so small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kei Sawada , Naoto Nagaosa

To realize Majorana fermions having novel physical features has been developed as a key while difficult task in topological superconductor. Here we have proposed another platform to generate Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which is constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Song Chen , Hua-Hua Fu

Chiral molecules are known to preferentially select electrons with a particular spin state, an effect termed chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). In this work, the transient CISS dynamics in a chiral molecule are investigated through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Riley Stuermer , Collin VanEssen , Jacob Byers , Keith Ferrer , Prasad Gudem , Diego Kienle , Jonas Fransson , Mani Vaidyanathan

Helical magnetic structures and its responses to external magnetic fields in Yb(Ni$_x$Cu$_{1-x}$)$_3$Al$_9$, with a chiral crystal structure of the space group $R32$, have been investigated by resonant X-ray diffraction. It is shown that…

Chirality, or handedness, enters astrophysics in three distinct ways. Magnetic field and vortex lines tend to be helical and have a systematic twist in the northern and southern hemispheres of a star or a galaxy. Helicity is here driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-06 Axel Brandenburg

The majority of solar-type stars reside in multiple systems, especially binaries. They form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. Our previous study shows that magnetic braking can tighten the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Bo Zhao , Zhi-Yun Li , Kaitlin M. Kratter

Magnetic fields play essential roles in protoplanetary disks. Magnetic fields in the disk atmosphere are of particular interest, as they are connected to the wind-launching mechanism. In this work, we study the polarization of the light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Haifeng Yang , Zhi-Yun Li

Magnetic phenomena are in chemistry and condensed matter physics considered to be associated with low temperatures. That a magnetic state, or order, is stable below a critical temperature as well as becoming stronger the lower the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 J. Fransson

The role played by a primordial magnetic field during the pre-recombination epoch is analysed through the cyclotron radiation (due to the free electrons) it might produce in the primordial plasma. We discuss the constraint implied by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Denis Puy , Patrick Peter

We demonstrate that in a chiral plasma subject to an external magnetic field, the chiral vortical effect can induce a new type of magnetohydrodynamic instability which we refer to as the {\it chiral magnetovortical instability}. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-14 Shuai Wang , Xu-Guang Huang

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks, within ten astronomical units, are where terrestrial planets are born. By developing a new class of multi-dust radiative magnetized inner rim models, we can gain valuable insights into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Mario Flock , Ondřej Chrenko , Takahiro Ueda , Myriam Benisty , Jozsef Varga , Roy van Boekel

It has been proposed that spin-polarized cosmic radiation can induce asymmetric changes in helical biopolymers that may account for the emergence of biological homochirality. The parity violation in the weak interaction has direct…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Noemie Globus , Anatoli Fedynitch , Roger D. Blandford

Large scale magnetic fields represent a triple point where cosmology, high-energy physics and astrophysics meet for different but related purposes. After reviewing the implications of large scale magnetic fields in these different areas,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Giovannini

The radical pair mechanism is a leading hypothesis in animal magnetic navigation. This mechanism associates the magnetic sense with the visual system, the radical pairs in cryptochromes of the eye retina being specialized magnetic receptors…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Vladimir N. Binhi , Frank S. Prato